Peace.
That's the plan.
And it feels like I can move in that direction now. (Despite some others' inclinations...)
Onward, eh?
I like TK's quote this week:
"True nobility isn't about being
better than anyone else, it is
about being better than you
used to be." Wayne Dyer
Let's see...
I am reading a fabulous novel, " The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. It is a dark and difficult piece but so well written. I haven't bought a pocket sized paperback in years. I did it for old times' sake. Because I usually only buy hardbound or at least, the oversize paperbacks.
Go Padres.
and please send prayers to the Griffey family for healing and wholeness. (thanks)
Goodnight and God Bless.
Wait a minim.....
Tonight, we rented the new film, "The Fabelmans" and loved it. Incredible performances, screenwriting and story-telling. I espec...
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I'll have to find the book. This appeared today, the same day of your blog, from the Writer's Almanac:
It's the birthday of the novelist Alice Sebold, (books by this author) born in Madison, Wisconsin (1963). She grew up wanting to be a writer, and went to Syracuse University, where some of the best writers in America were teaching, including Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. But one night during her freshman year of college, Sebold was walking home when she was attacked, dragged into an underground tunnel, and raped. She thought that she was going to be murdered. When she later talked to the police, they said that a girl had recently been murdered in that same tunnel, and so she should consider herself lucky for having survived.
A few weeks later, Sebold spotted the rapist on the street, and she went to the police. He was arrested, and Sebold testified against him at trial. She was subjected to a brutal cross-examination by the defense attorney, and police later said that she was one of the best rape witnesses they had ever seen on the stand. The rapist was convicted and received the maximum sentence.
Sebold thought that the end of the trial would put the experience behind her, but for the next fifteen years she struggled to have relationships with other people, and she struggled to write. She tried going to graduate school and dropped out. She moved to New York and started drinking a lot and dabbling in drugs.
She decided a change of scenery might help, so she moved to California, and got a job as a caretaker of an arts colony, where she lived in a cabin without electricity, reading and writing at night by propane light. In the back of her mind she'd always thought about what those policeman had said to her about that other girl who had been murdered in that same tunnel. One day, Sebold sat down at her desk and began writing a story in the voice of a teenage girl who has been murdered, and in one sitting she wrote the entire opening of what would become her novel The Lovely Bones, about a murdered fourteen-year-old girl looking down from heaven as her family tries to recover from the grief of her death.
Sebold's agent had a hard time selling the novel, since most publishers were wary about a book narrated by a dead girl. But it was eventually picked up by Little, Brown, and it became a word-of-mouth sensation among booksellers and critics before it was even published. It came out in June of 2002, a few months before Sebold's thirty-ninth birthday. It sold more than 2 million copies, becoming the best-selling book in 2002.
Sebold has said in interviews that she was as surprised by the book's success as anyone. She said, "It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway."
Duke,
Thanks for this post. It gave me chills. I mean the odds of me picking up this book and then alluding to it on the web when you had just read the blurb on Ms. Siebold....wow. And with that factual info it gives an added texture to the depth of the writing.
FYI: You can get the paperback at Costco for $4.00!--or happy to pass it along.
Alli introduced me to that book. It was one of the few books that I didn't mind staying up until 3AM reading. I recommend it highly.
Let's all hold the TRUTH for Duchess that this will all unfold for her highest good and she will go on to a rewarding, prosperous future taking the Fond Memories of the Pacific Church community in her heart knowing that she is LOVED. Forgetting the few who have forgotten to "Be Love".
Love to my Church Family..Larry
This book contains the most powerful opening line I have ever read. Alice Sebold breaks all the rules and produces fiction of the highest caliber. She is one of my heroes.
This book begins with the best opening line ever written. Alice Sebold is one of my heroes (for many, many reasons).
Yes, do read "the Lovely Bones"--Alice Sebold is an extraordinary writer. And now that I know some of the personal info that Duke shared with us--it deepens the experience.
Another survivor: are you referring to the opening line in chapter one about her name?
When i grow up I want to be a successful writer such as this.
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